These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church, 2015. Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2017. The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics:

3,580,000

Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population:

12.94%

Baptisms per Year (Under age 7):

35,512

Baptisms per Year (Over age 7):

33,095

First Communions per Year:

34,566

Confirmations per Year:

23,481

Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools:

500,142

Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools:

278,129

Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education:

8,515

Church Marriages per Year:

8,376

Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics:

4,832

Priests:

1,599

Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters):

1,085

Catholics per Priest:

2,239

Parishes:

574

Mission Stations (no resident priests):

3,142

Catholic Hospitals:

46

Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids:

6

1.United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Urbanization Prospects, 2014.

2.United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.